# What do you think of a particular Salafi preacher?

*His opinion of a Salafi preacher: level-headed, from what he has heard*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/6/
- Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (30:07–32:40)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=1807s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/

**Topics:** Views on contemporary scholars; Salafism and Wahhabism

**Question as asked:** What is your opinion of [name unclear in the captions]?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** From what he has heard, he says the preacher is generally level-headed and balanced within the Salafi dawah, though he has not followed him closely.

## Longer summary

A chat question asks his opinion of a preacher whose name is garbled in the captions [?]. Mufti Abu Layth says he has not come across much of his material recently and jokes that he needs to produce more content. He says that, from what he has heard, the preacher is quite balanced within the Salafi dawah and generally level-headed, not one to rant about Salafism although he comes from that background. The last thing he remembers is the preacher posting, out of the blue, that giving zakat to a particular foundation he had advocated was haram, which made him wonder what politics lay behind it. He says he wishes him well and will have to follow up.

## Sources and names cited

- Salafi
- zakat

## Transcript (machine tier, 30:07–32:40)

[30:07] yeah all the supplements you can get get them in the inshallah inshallah mufti sahib what is your opinion of allah [Laughter] i haven't recently come across much of his stuff recently i don't know why that is either the algorithms are just not bringing it to me or he's not you know getting more content out there you know he needs to watch a few garyvee content man

[30:46] content can be real with you like like like just get more content so he needs to i don't know whether he's not producing enough content or he is but i'm just not seeing it so yeah you see the he he is to be fair from from many of the things that are coming to my mind he's quite uh

[31:22] balanced in um in the salafi dawah so he's quite from what i heard he you know he doesn't just kind of rant the selfie selfie thing although he is from that background um but he's been generally he's generally level headed from what i understand um i don't know i gotta see what he's been saying recently that the last thing i remember about him was that uh the zakat thing he i remember that out of the blue he just made some posts saying giving your zakat to this particular foundation is

[32:01] haram and he was an advocate of that foundation and it was like yes what's this politics because there's always there's always always always always more going on behind the scenes i was trying to at that time that's the last thing i remember actually um the main thing that he'd been in between there were you know one two little things but yeah so yeah i mean i i wish him well um but i'll have to follow up

[32:39] yeah so what's going on people a level-headed salafi yeah i mean you see salafi dawa the wahhabi dawa is obviously it's a huge problem obvi naturally any problem with it brings some opportunity as well that's you know nothing in this world is usually 100 bad unless it's colon cancer

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 1zgHntbMPis/s/6. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/6/

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